lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
healthy; sound; wholesome
study; pursuit of knowledge
to strive; to endeavour; to endeavor; to make an effort; to be zealous
to practice; to practise; to train; to drill; to become practiced; to become practised
to work hard; to work diligently
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
to mask; to cover; to cloak; to hide; to conceal
to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
notification; pre-1886 administrative order
bluffing; bluster; bravado
special; particular; peculiar; unique
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
supremacy; predominance; being superior to
having said that; on the other hand
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
superiority complex; sense of superiority
to be soaked in; to be flooded; to be submerged; to be immersed in (joy, memories, alcohol, etc.); to give oneself over to; to bask in
authority; power; influence
powerful person; influential person
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
celebrity; personality; prominent figure
kindness; intimacy; friendship
intentionally; deliberately; designedly; especially; particularly
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial
to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt
misrepresentation (falsification) of one's past record (personal history)
(religious) faith; belief; creed
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
ruby; ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material); Ruby (programming language)